Different game. 2006 Prey is pretty dope tho, and it had radio segments featuring AM legend Art Bell!

Bill Gates hasn’t been CEO of Microsoft in 26 years. Not that there aren’t plenty of reasons to boycot Microsoft.

This, fuck Nintendo. Its disappointing to see so many people have zero respect for themselves.

I 100% believe that’s the end game and anyone not preparing for or fighting to stop that inevitability is asleep.

What a roller coaster, especially because I have no idea who these people are.

I’ve really only ever played the GB version with various hacks. The Rosy Retrospective DX hack is pretty dope.

Nobody said steam was better because of their EULA, so calling Steam out for something every developer on the planet does is what’s hypocritical.

I don’t think blaming Steam for society’s ills is a valid response.

You can get a used Steam controller on eBay. It’s perfect for games like these.I played Dawn of War with one and it worked great.

Steam doesn’t require DRM to publish on their platform.

Developers place DRM, that’s not s requirement of Steam publishing. Also, 99% of digital stores state you’re only buying a license. That’s a problem with modern society, not Steam.

You’re moving the goalpost, have a nice day.

Its an effective monopoly, that’s not really disputable. This lawsuit isn’t even about them having a monopoly, its about them allegedly abusing it.

Except your original comment said nothing about the power it had against brick and morter, you said several of the games listed were old enough that steam was in its infancy and not the defacto storefront when they came out. The only one that came out when Steam was in its infancy was Roblox, and as for the rest, if there’s no other storefronts around to speak of, then its the defacto storefront.

Walmart didn’t let local stores go out of business, it deliberately undercut local stores in order to drive them out if business.

So communist governments have never existed?

Jesus Christ, I had no idea know Roblox was that old. (2006 btw, not 2005) I thought LoL and Minecraft were the oldest, which both came out in 2009, and Steam had already cemented itself by then. It was definitely past its infancy, and what other digital game store was it competing with back then? I was already using it, and there was nowhere else I downloaded games from other than individual game’s websites. It WAS the defacto storefront. Walmart is a store, not a storefront.

Its not a virus, but it is corporate spyware.

Steam was the defacto storefront when all those games came out.

Half-Life 2 wasn’t designed to be a great game. It was designed to launch a digital storefront that allowed Valve to rake in 30% of all revenue for games sold on the platform - which is often a larger percentage than is paid to the actual people making the games.

Those things aren’t mutually exclusive. It was used to launch Steam, but it was also an objectively great game because Valve cares about their craft.